Mystery AtlasWabar Impact-Glass Hypothesis
Elsebeth Thomsen's 1980 proposal that the Black Stone is a piece of impactite glass created by the meteorite impact that formed the Wabar craters, rather than a stony meteorite itself.
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Theories & Explanations
Wabar Impact-Glass Hypothesis contradicts Black Stone Agate Hypothesis.
People
Wabar Impact-Glass Hypothesis was authored by Elsebeth Thomsen — Published as 'New Light on the Origin of the Holy Black Stone of the Ka'ba' in Meteoritics, March 1980.
Objects & Artifacts
Wabar Impact-Glass Hypothesis attempts to explain Black Stone of the Kaaba — Untested, and specifically undermined by Prescott et al.'s 2004 thermoluminescence dating of the Wabar craters to roughly 290 years before present — far too recent to match the Black Stone's documented history, which predates that date by many centuries.